Welcome to The Strength Log, a podcast about strength training, nutrition, science, health and fitness.
Your hosts, Daniel Richter and Philip Wildenstam, are two Swedish gym rats and science nerds with decades of experience in helping people reach their fitness goals.
In The Strength Log, we translate science into understandable insights for you who are looking to gain a better understanding of how to reach your fitness goals.
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Recent Episodes of The Strength Log Podcast
[Podcast] The Quick Guide to Training for Muscle Growth
If your goal in the gym is to train for muscle growth, you just need to know the basics and a few core principles. In this episode of The Strength Log, we’ll break it down for you: That’s about it. It’s not very complicated—in theory—but the more time we spend in the gym, the more we … Read more
[Podcast] Make Compound Exercises Your Bread and Butter
Compound exercises are the closest thing you’ll ever come to a shortcut in your strength training. These lifts will not only work a single muscle group; instead hitting several at once, saving you time. Compound lifts will enable you to train all major muscle groups quickly and with fewer exercises, compared to working each muscle … Read more
[Podcast] Become Great at Squats by Fixing These Mistakes
Which squat mistakes are actually holding you back from becoming a world-class squatter? Or even a decent one? They might not be the ones you think (clickbait!), and in this episode of The Strength Log podcast, our mission is to make you less afraid of the stuff random squat gurus on the World Wide Web … Read more
[Podcast] Answering Your Best Questions on Strength Training
We made it to ten episodes! That’s worth a small celebration, don’t you think?That’s why this episode is fully dedicated to answering questions from our listeners. From the ones you sent in, we picked eight. See the timestamps below! Timestamps: With the player above, you can listen to the episode directly here in your browser. … Read more
[Podcast] Machines or Free Weights, When Does Your Choice Matter?
Free weights are the superior choice at the gym, says many people. Barbells, dumbbells, kettlebells, and such are much more natural and functional! Don’t waste your time sucking up to the machines! But wait! Don’t use free weights, you’ll hurt yourself! Use machines instead, they are much safer and more efficient for building your muscles … Read more
[Podcast] Are These Deadlift Mistakes Holding You Back?
What are the most common deadlift mistakes? In today’s episode, we’ve compiled the deadlift mistakes we believe are holding people back, but are also easily correctable. If you want to improve your deadlift instantly, correcting these mistakes will be the closest you’ll come to a quick fix. We also discuss injury prevention and equipment like … Read more
[Podcast] How Often Should You Take Your Sets to Fail?
Do you build more muscle mass when you train to failure, versus stopping a few reps short? In today’s episode, we discuss a new study that examined this. Then we’ll zoom out and debate a lot of different scenarios, to give you a better understanding of when it might matter more if you train to … Read more
[Podcast] For a Bigger Bench Press, Don’t Make These 10 Mistakes
The bench press is not only the world’s most popular barbell lift, it’s also a technical lift that many people will struggle with for years before figuring it out. So, what are the most common bench press mistakes you should avoid to improve faster? If you google ”common bench press mistakes”, you’ll find many articles … Read more
[Podcast] Reps vs Weight – Which Is Key to Becoming Stronger?
Time to talk about reps vs weight! To reach your training goals in the gym, you will need to add weight to the barbell or increase the number of reps you lift. That’s called progressive overload and it’s the most important principle in strength training, i.e. to continuously lift more than you have before. In … Read more
[Podcast] Shut Up and Squat! But Should You Front or Back Squat?
The squat is the most important lift in the toolbox for anyone looking to build stronger and bigger legs. If you squat with a barbell, you basically have two options: putting the barbell on your upper back, or putting it on your front deltoids, i.e. in front of your throat. So how does the front … Read more